Whilst trying to focus on the current chapter of study for my OU “Art and its Histories’ course: ‘The Work of Art – The Work of Psychoanalysis’, I’m also still thinking about ‘Minotaur’. Having been given a tatty pair of dungarees (thanks Ed) to use for the ‘costume’ (although this doesn’t seem to really be the right word) I’ve been thinking about embroidering the dungarees with words – as yet, I’m not sure what these words might be, but there seems to be a strong sense of writing, or the written word creeping into this project. The image of embroidered words and / or symbols which the Minotaur wears or carries with him is becoming clearer. Red embroidery thread, shiny.
In the course work I’m looking at the work of Eva Hesse, and trying to think about ambiguity and bodily association in terms of her sculptural practice. I recently bought a book called ‘The Book of Symbols’ and look through it for any reference to the symbolic meaning of ‘box’. Meanwhile, I turn to the page headed ‘Thread’ and of course a reference (in an illustration of a Burne – Jones painting) to “Unwinding a ball of golden thread, which will show him the way back. Theseus descends into the labyrinth.”
It all starts to add up somehow…….
